Donabate for C&C

CONMIKE12

usual stuff, early morning. light changing every few mins.C and c appreciated.

kensutz

I really like the colours from the pic. Looks like it's worth getting up in the morning to check out what it's going to be like to do something similar.

templeathea

Really gorgeous shot

magicbastarder

i dunno if the foreground does much for the shot - might be worth cutting the bottom third out.

sunny2004

great colours, the island is far to centered for my taste.

AnCatDubh

nice - the colours are a bit too saturated imho - for me it leaves the shot in the slightly 'unbelievable' category. I’m not sure if you have saturated it - if so then maybe a little too much. if not then its probably just one of those unusual moments where the colours actually naturally look overly saturated. it leaves the rocks in the foreground looking like something from mars (red hue).

Noticed two 'blotches' - the first I thought was something in the distances (left hand side along the horizon line), the second got me wondering - right hand side just below the horizon. Are these dust spots or natural features? - the reason I ask is that I have one a little larger with one of my lens and I need to do a bit of work to get it sorted ;o)

Overall though for me, if you were to lessen the saturation then I’d be a reasonably happy camper with it. well done.

CONMIKE12

Those blotches are dust spots on the sensor,so much for the 40d's self cleaning :-). I actually haven't touched the sturation either in Lightroom or Cs3.It's just a new lab colour technique i was testing. It won';t be to everyones taste but it;s certainly a very cool way of enhancing colour and it;s totally none destrcutcive and adjustable.
The sky was pretty much like that for two mins, amyone who ventures out early can attest to the deep colours you can see at that time, but they are very fleeting and obviuosly not QUITE bumped up as this.
As for the island being centered, the spot I was in was quite precarious and what i was looking to get was the clouds going diagonally across the shot........ can't have everything or please everyone I suppose :-)

broad_sword

Superb image without doubt The foreground (esp on the left side) looks a little underexposed - did you use any filters here? An ND Grad Filter might work v well for a shot like this?